welcome to proven my name is clay croft and today we are talking about getting ready
for over landing this could be very exciting for you this might be your first time that you're
going to go out over landing you might be maybe it's the first time this season or maybe you're
going to take the plunge and do something big like go international or leave for a
long period of time so getting ready for over landing is kind of a loaded statement
but the process of getting ready whether it's a weekend warrior trip a 10-day trip or a month-long
international trip a lot of it's the same it just breaks down into its scale so the big thing to do
is to create a plan for your for your trip like i said weekend warrior to international three-month
trip doesn't matter you have to create a plan and this plan basically boils down to consider
your destination where are you going what does it look like what is the weather like what are
the conditions that you're trying to encounter or avoid what are the roads like are you going
to be trying to do a lot of long distance travel to get to this destination and around it or is it
going to be a lot of trail work this destination is going to dictate a lot of your future planning
of your trip so next would be to define your travel group who's going with you so after you've
considered your travel group you've decided who's going and who isn't going look at those folks and
decide are there some skill sets that need to be acquired before going on this trip now if you're
going on a weekend camping trip do you really need a wilderness first responder 10 day medical class
no not necessarily would it be awesome to have for sure but is it going to be a stopping a go no-go
decision because everyone in the group is a is not a woofer no go on the trip if you're going for
you know say crossing some really ambitious expedition in antarctica maybe it's best that
everybody has a woofer certification before you decide to go on that that trip these are all the
range of considerations what they are to you is up to you make sure that you at least identify
the skills that you think you need or don't need before you head out on one of these trips
so after you've fully considered your travel group you're going to consider your vehicle
what are you going to take is it going to be the motorcycle or is it going to be the suv
or the pickup or the truck with the trailer that's up to you based on all those other things that
we've already talked about and then once you have made that selection of the vehicle that's going
to suit your needs the best then you need to go through that vehicle you need to look for repairs
and improvements so the repairs are always first always do anything that you need to to
make the vehicle mechanically sound and then you go and do your improvements from there
don't take a vehicle that or don't spend money on a vehicle for say put a light bar on there when
you know the differentials are bad make sure that the diffs are good before you ever put a light
bar on something because you want it you know it's those types of considerations priorities
over wants make sure that the repairs are done then make the improvements and the improvements
should be with a full focus on making the livability or the safety of the trip better
either for the people or the vehicle itself or the environment they'll be traveling through so once
that's established you've got your repairs and your improvements identified and completed then
you can go into your gear and equipment that you need for your trip that's also a huge topic and
we'll do a video on that in itself but basically the gear and the equipment the gear for the truck
and the equipment for the people or however you want to put it is going to be the necessary items
that make the trip successful and it's usually the stuff that goes into the vehicle or on the people
or is used to feed those people so the very last item on the on the list of preparing to go over
landing is to actually leave on your trip set a date and leave i have seen and talked to hundreds
of people that have said i'm i'm gonna go on my first over landing trip as soon as i have my first
refrigerator or as soon as i have this light bar or this or that go on the trip make a plan and
leave you can always come back make improvements to it but start getting your experience get a good
outline get a good plan going and go on your trip so getting ready for an overlanding trip can be
something that is easy or really complex it just depends on the trip and take it from me
sometimes i overthink my weekend warrior trip and under think my big trips it's just it's just part
of going through the motions of getting out and over landing the the best thing that you can do
though is make a go through these plans at least briefly and it'll get you off on the right foot